Nature, ] 
Dec. 18, 1902 
Index 
XXXVil 
Variation, Germinal and Environmental, J. C. Ewart, ¥.R.S., 
209 
The International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, Prof. 
J. B: Farmer, F.R.S., 217 
La Costruzione degli Ingranaggi, Prof. D. Tessari, 218 
The Lesson of Evolution, Frederick Wollaston Hutton, 
F.R.S., Prof. R. Meldola, 219 
The Elements of Physical Chemistry, Harry C. Jones, 220 
Other Worlds, Garrett P. Serviss, 221 
The Basis of Social Relations, D. G. Brinton, 221 
The Criterion of Scientific Truth, G. Shann, 221 
Opere Matematiche di Francesco Brioschi, 221 
Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, 
222 
Education and Empire, Richard Burdon Haldane, 222 
Special Reports on Educational Subjects, 22 , 
Expedition Norvégienne de 1899-1900 pour |’Etude des 
Aurores Boréales, Resultats des Recherches Magneétiques, 
Kr. Birkeland, Dr. C. Chree, F.R.S., 227 
On the Intestinal Tract of Birds, with Remarks on the Valu- 
ation and Nomenclature of Zoological Characters, P. 
Chalmers Mitchell, 235 
The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley, 241 
Ilistory of Geology and Palxontology to the End of the 
Nineteenth Century, Karl Alfred von Zittel, 242 
Plane Surveying, a Text and Reference Book for the Use of 
Students in Engineering and for Engineers Generally, Paul 
C. Nugent, Major C. F. Close, 243 
The Inspection of Railway Materials, G. R. Bodmer, 244 
The Watkins Manual of (Photographic) Exposure and De- 
velopment, Alfred Watkins, 245 
Nature Study and Life, C. F. Hodge, 245 
Manual of Agricultural Chemistry, Herbert Ingle, 245 
Ueber Aehnlichkeiten im Pflanzenreich, F. Hildebrand, 246 
Index to the Literature of the Spectroscope (1887-1900, both 
Inclusive), Alfred Tuckermann, 246 
William Gilbert, of Colchester, Physician of London, on the 
Magnet, Magnetic Bodies also, and on the Great Magnet 
the Earth, Prof. S. P.. Thompson, F.R.S., 249 
The Record of the Royal Society of-London, 251 
The Mechanics of Engineering, Prof. A. Jay DuBois, 265 
The Natural History of the British Surface-feeding Ducks, 
J. G. Millais, T. Digby Pigott, C.B. 266 
Traité de Zoologie Concréte, Yves Delage and Edgard 
Hérouard, Dr. G. C. Bourne, 267 
Wellenlehre und Schall, W. C. L. van Schaik, 268 
' Malarial Fever, its Cause, Prevention and Treatment, Ronald 
Ross, F.R.S., 269 
Velocity Diagrams, their Construction and Uses, Intended for 
all who are Interested in Mechanical Movements, Prof. 
C. W. MacCond, 269 
Spiderland, Rose Haig Thomas, 270 
Tuberculosis as a Disease of the Masses, and How to Combat 
it, S. A. Knopf, 270 
The Teacher's Manual of Object Lessons in Geography, 
Vincent T. Murché, 270 
William Gilbert of Colchester: a Sketch of his Magnetic 
Philosophy, Charles E, Benham, 270 
The Vocal System based on the Fundamental Laws of 
Language, G. Lionel Wright, 271 
The Lake Counties, W. G. Collingwood, 271 
Preliminary Report on a Journey of Archzological and Topo- 
graphical Exploration in Chinese Turkestan, M. A. Stein, 
Prof. M. Winternitz, 284 
The Encyclopedia Britannica, 
F.R.S., 289 , 
Les Bateaux Sous-Marins et les Submersibles, R. D’Eque- 
villey, 290 
Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, J. Willard 
Gibbs, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 291 
A Course in Invertebrate Zoology, Henry Sherring Pratt, 292 
Slide Rule Notes, Lieut.-Colonel H. C. Dunlop and C. S. 
Jackson, 292 
Injurious and Useful Insects: an Introduction to the Study 
of Economic Entomology, L. C. Miall, F.R.S., 293 
Chloroform: a Manual for Students and Practitioners, 
Edward Lawrie, 293 
Les Limites de la Biologie, J. Grasset, 293 
Schule des automobil Fahrers, Wolfgang Vogel, Mervyn 
O’Gorman, 313 
Prof. Arthur Smithells, 
An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy 
of Animals, G. C. Bourne, 314 
Scientific Memoirs, 315 
Traité de Bactériologie Pure et Appliquée 4 la Médicine et 2 
PHygiéne, P. Miquel and R. Cambier, Dr. E. Klein, 
F.R.S., 316 
General Investigations of Curved Surfaces of 1827 and 1825, 
Karl Friedrich Gauss, 316 
The Elements of Mind, H. J. Brooks, 317 
A Graduated Collection of Problems in Electricity, Prof. 
Robert Weber, 317 
Junior Chemistry and Physics, W. Jerome Harrison, 317 
Report on the Collections of Natural History made in the 
Antarctic Regions during the Voyage of the Sou¢heri Cross, 
R. B. Sharpe and F. J. Bell, 322 
Catalogue of the Collection of Birds’ Eggs in the British 
Museum (Natural History), E. W. Oates, 322 
Guide to the Galleries of Mammalia in the British Museum 
(Natural History), 322 
Guide to the Coral Gallery in the British Museum (Natural 
History), R. Kirkpatrick and F. J. Bell, 322 
Erdmagnetische Untersuchungung im Kaiserstuhl, G Meyer, 
324 
Chart of Lines of Equal Magnetic Declination and Annual 
Change for 1902, 324 
Magnetical Dip and Declination in the Philippine Islands, 
Rev. John Doyle, 324 
Annales de |’Observatoire National d’Athénes, D. Eginitis, 
331 
Lehrbuch der Meteorologie, Dr. Julius Hann, Dr. W. N. 
Shaw, F.R.S., 337 
The Textile Fibres of Commerce, William S. Hannan, 338 
Les Poissons du Bassin du Congo, G. A. Boulenger, 339 
The Roorkee Manual of Applied Mechanics, Stability of 
Structures and the Graphic Determination of Lines of 
Resistance, Lieut.-Colonel J. H. C Harrison, 340 
Ordnance Survey of England and Wales, 341 
A Manual of Elementary Practical Physics, Julius Hortvet, 
341 
The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute General Index, 
342 
Zur Metaphysik des Tragischer, L. Ziegler, 342 
Hygiene for Students, Edward F. Willoughby, 342 
Savage Island: an Account of a Sojourn in Niue and Tonga, 
Basil Thomson, E. Sidney Hartland, 347 
Theory of the Motion of the Moon: Containing a New 
Calculation of the Expressions for the Coordinates of the 
Moon in Terms of Time, Ernest W. Brown, F.R.S., 356 . 
The Encyclopzdia Britannica, 361 
Pathologie générale et expérimentale, les Processus géneraux, 
A. Chantemesse and W. W. Podwyssotsky, 363 
Matiére médicale zoologique, Histoire des 
d’Origine Animale, H. Beauregard, 363 
Chemische und medicinische Untersuchungen, Festschrift zur 
des sechzigsten Geburtstages von Max Jaflé, 363 
Das Wirbeltierblut in mikrokristallographischer Hinricht, 
Dr. H. U. Kobert, 363 
Essays in Historical Chemistry, T. E. Thorpe, C.B., F.R.S., 
36 
The sates torniay a Commentary upon the Aims and 
Methods of an Assistant Master in a Public School, Arthur 
Christopher Benson, 366 
The Dictionary of Photography, E. J. Wall, 368 
Die Entwicklung des Gesichtes: Tafeln zur Entwicklungs- 
geschichte der aeusseren Koerperform der Wirbelthiere, 
Carl Rabl, Part i., Das Gesicht der Saeugethiere, 368 
Les Fleurs du Midi, P. Granger, 368 
Physiology for Beginners, Leonard Hill, F.R.S., Dr. B. 
Moore, 369 
Die Philosophie August Comte’s, L. Lévy-Briihl, 369 
Elementary Coal Mining, George L. Kerr, 369 
The Cambridge Natural History, Mammalia, F. E. Beddard, 
Drogues 
Noub Queensland Ethnography, Games, Sports and Amuse- 
ments, Walter E. Roth, 380 
The Hepatice of the British Isles, being Figures and De- 
scriptions of all Known British Species, William Henry 
Pearson, Prof. J. B. Farmer, F.R.S., 385 
De la Double Refraction Elliptique et de la Tétraréfringence 
du Quartz dans le Voisinage de l’Axe, G. Quesneville, 386 
